US RE50,482 E1
Printing apparatus and liquid storage member
Yukimichi Kimura, Kawasaki (JP); Takahiro Kiuchi, Fuchu (JP); Junichi Kubokawa, Kawasaki (JP); Kyohei Sato, Kawasaki (JP); Koki Shimada, Kawasaki (JP); Masaya Shimmachi, Kawasaki (JP); Yusuke Tanaka, Kawasaki (JP); Hideaki Matsumura, Kawasaki (JP); Keiichiro Tsukuda, Yokohama (JP); and Tatsuo Nanjo, Kawasaki (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/750,772.
Application 15/643,225 is a division of application No. 15/296,876, filed on Oct. 18, 2016, granted, now 9,738,081, issued on Aug. 22, 2017.
Application 17/750,772 is a continuation of application No. 16/728,460, filed on Dec. 27, 2019, granted, now RE49336.
Application 16/728,460 is a reissue of application No. 15/643,225, filed on Jul. 6, 2017, granted, now 10,118,396, issued on Nov. 6, 2018.
Application 17/750,772 is a reissue of application No. 15/643,225, filed on Jul. 6, 2017, granted, now 10,118,396, issued on Nov. 6, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2015-214358 (JP), filed on Oct. 30, 2015.
Int. Cl. B41J 29/377 (2006.01); B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 29/02 (2006.01); B41J 29/13 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 29/377 (2013.01) [B41J 2/175 (2013.01); B41J 2/17509 (2013.01); B41J 2/17513 (2013.01); B41J 2/17523 (2013.01); B41J 2/17553 (2013.01); B41J 2/17556 (2013.01); B41J 2/17596 (2013.01); B41J 29/02 (2013.01); B41J 29/13 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
[ 25. A printing apparatus comprising:
a liquid storage container including:
a liquid storage chamber that stores a liquid to be supplied to a print head that ejects the liquid; and
an injection portion configured to inject the liquid into the liquid storage chamber;
a cap that can open and close the injection portion;
an ejection portion that is located at a front side of the printing apparatus, and configured to eject a storge medium printed by the print head to outside of the printing apparatus; and
a cover that can cover a top and a front side of the injection portion and can open and close,
wherein
the print head performs a printing operation,
the injection portion is provided on an inclined surface of the liquid storage container and is oriented toward an upper side in a case where the liquid is ejected from the print head,
the inclined surface is positioned so as to face the front side of the printing apparatus;
the cover, in a case where the liquid is injected from the injection portion into the liquid storage container, is evacuated from the top and a side of the injection portion, and
the cap has a protrusion that protrudes toward an outside in a state where the injection portion is hermetically closed and that is provided at an opening center of the injection portion,
wherein the print head can eject a magenta ink, a yellow ink and a cyan ink as the color ink,
wherein the liquid storage container is independently provided for each color of the liquids of colors, and
wherein the cover is a single cover that covers the plurality of liquid storage containers.]